re: Public school teaches about "white privilege"(Posted by buddhavista on 1/17/13 at 10:42 am to bigblake)

quote:I understand what you are saying, and barring affirmative action, whites have more doors opened to them. However, this same sentence is just, if not more applicable: "how the hit the fricking jackpot by being black, and born in america"

Serious opportunity being a black American as opposed to being a black _______.

sure, but I doubt there are many blacks in that small rural community in WI.

I never bought the white privelage bit until I traveled internationally on a long trip (6 months). I discovered that as a well dressed white man, I can walk into any hotel in the world and take a shite in their bathrooms. This comes in really handy in 3rd world countries, as decent bathrooms are in short supply in much of asia.

I do comment later on that being middle class and two loving parents are probably more relevant.

re: Public school teaches about "white privilege"(Posted by Zach on 1/17/13 at 10:42 am to buddhavista)

quote:Now, I didn't get shite for college from my parents. But graduation and wedding, I cleaned the frick up.

I think weddings are where the idea of 'start up money' came about. You read in various media how weddings cost 10K or 20K and people assume that's the norm.

Hell, marriage is not the norm. More people just live together now. My folks gave me ZERO when I got married. They were poor. My first wife's family paid about 1K for the wedding (5K in today's money) and that was it.

Speaking of my first wife (may Allah damn her soul to perdition for eternity) I only had to pay 400 bucks for the divorce. The lawyer looked at the agreement I drew up and said "Wow, all we need is some 'therefore's and some 'whereas's and this thing is ready for court'.

re: Public school teaches about "white privilege"(Posted by Newbomb Turk on 1/17/13 at 10:46 am to Zach)

I love how liberals LOVE to make absurd claims about how all whites are privileged and are born into grand luxury when talking about bullsh!t/racist stereotypes like "white privilege" but then are the first ones to bring up the fact that there are more whites on welfare than blacks whenever welfare is discussed.

re: Public school teaches about "white privilege"(Posted by INFIDEL on 1/17/13 at 10:47 am to buddhavista)

Middle class and two loving supportive parents. My dad grew up poor country. Like real deal poor country. Dirt floor and tar paper walls poor. He worked his arse off his entire life. Supported his family and held his marriage together. Consequently, my siblings and I are doing fairly well for ourselves, thanks to hard work and student loans.

re: Public school teaches about "white privilege"(Posted by buddhavista on 1/17/13 at 10:57 am to INFIDEL)

quote:Middle class and two loving supportive parents. My dad grew up poor country. Like real deal poor country. Dirt floor and tar paper walls poor. He worked his arse off his entire life. Supported his family and held his marriage together. Consequently, my siblings and I are doing fairly well for ourselves, thanks to hard work and student loans.

So is this thanks to being white, or hardwork and sacrifice?

Probably all of them. I don't think you can separate them.

There is definitely a correlation between white and a host of positive outcomes and less negative ones. If you are white, you are more likely to be born into a two parent household (compared to blacks) which is a big indicator of success.

Whites are more likely to go to college, less likely to be in prison, less likely to get arrested for drugs, etc. Correlation does not imply causation but certainly there is something there.

There is definitely an advantage for being white in america.

I think the better argument to make is that moving the starting line doesn't fix the problem. Giving blacks a head start is not going to help them in the end, in fact, it may hurt. Instead we should focus our energy (if we want to solve the problem, I personally don't) on trying to get blacks to have fewer children out of wedlock. And reforming our justice system.

I can think you are a dumb shite and an ignorant douche based upon what you post without hating you, I actually have no feelings about you, don't know who you are or anything about you.

quote:You either wake up angry, or are easily angered.

angry? what happened to hate? hate=/= anger, and again you have no idea what my feelings are about screen names that post here, my esoteric writings could be used to conceal feelings as well as making my thoughts accessible only to the few deserving that post here.

re: Public school teaches about "white privilege"(Posted by fleaux on 1/17/13 at 11:12 am to Newbomb Turk)

quote:I love how liberals LOVE to make absurd claims about how all whites are privileged and are born into grand luxury when talking about bullsh!t/racist stereotypes like "white privilege" but then are the first ones to bring up the fact that there are more whites on welfare than blacks whenever welfare is discussed.

re: Public school teaches about "white privilege"(Posted by buddhavista on 1/17/13 at 11:18 am to bigblake)

quote:I think this is true for both blacks and whites. The defining test is a poorly dressed white man and poorly dressed black man. Then you'll see a difference.

Well I don't know about blacks, but we saw well dressed indians refused entry into a hotel in Bombay. They were much better dressed than us in fact, wearing dress clothes. We were in travel pants and a shirt......we were let in and they were denied.

The bathrooms were heavenly (for india) and I dropped a massive shite in them. Like epic level shit, so good I should have taken a picture.

quote:I discovered that as a well dressed white man, I can walk into any hotel in the world and take a shite in their bathrooms.

I discovered that as a well dressed white man, I often couldn't find a decent place to take a shite and had to squat over open holes like the rest of the people, and carried a newsppaer since toilet paper was unknow, but white privilege may have given me better access to imodium, but the local population didn't need it as much.